Racism

[akut401]

As is Los Angeles....

true, but NY a whole bunch more.....

 

[The Nose Goblin]

White Pride Shirt

Brown Pride Shirt

Why is one acceptable and not the other?

They both have designs on them and say "_ _ _ _ _ Pride" on them..

Are there even Brown Pride shirts?

 

[Corinthian™]

the thing I just can't stand are Political Correctness... it's like sugar-coating reality...

I don't call them "African-American"... just called them plain black(in spanish it sounds like negro).... *****

I don't call them caucasians... I call them White boy crackers... cracker head

I don't call them Hispanic/Latino.. I call them ****ing spicks...

I don't tell to dmcnx he has a weight probelm.. I tell him he's a fatass...

I don't tell Morg he's hearing impared... he's deaf...

I don't tell Fred_Fury he has mental problems... I call him sick-psycho dumtard..

*Banned Status*


EDIT:... whut? the "n" word is banned?

 

[PLAS]

a lot of interesting points have been raised here, so I'll just make a few comments

I know there is still a high level of racism in the states, in some places more than others, but still, it works both ways, for example:

a black (not african american, african american is a term coined by black people with inferiority complex... or whites with guilt problems, which don't differ much from each other).. as I was saying, a black stand up comic starts making jokes about white people, and it's funny, everybody laugs, has a great time and woo, hoo, hoo; yet if a white comic makes remarks about black people, even if he's talking about a traffic jam he was in and happens to mention that the driver in front of him drinking a cup of coffee was black, he's pegged as a racist.... even if the joke is about the city workers who caused the traffic jam by drilling a hole in the middle of main avenue at rush hour

that's why I'm only making jokes about paraplegic, jewish, half asian, half latino/black, ******s with drinking problems

 

[Outsiderzedge]

a lot of interesting points have been raised here, so I'll just make a few comments

I know there is still a high level of racism in the states, in some places more than others, but still, it works both ways, for example:

a black (not african american, african american is a term coined by black people with inferiority complex... or whites with guilt problems, which don't differ much from each other).. as I was saying, a black stand up comic starts making jokes about white people, and it's funny, everybody laugs, has a great time and woo, hoo, hoo; yet if a white comic makes remarks about black people, even if he's talking about a traffic jam he was in and happens to mention that the driver in front of him drinking a cup of coffee was black, he's pegged as a racist.... even if the joke is about the city workers who caused the traffic jam by drilling a hole in the middle of main avenue at rush hour

that's why I'm only making jokes about paraplegic, jewish, half asian, half latino/black, ******s with drinking problems

I see white stand-ups do jokes about black people all the time and to a predominantly black audience. They didn't care.

 

[Winter Spleen]

I see white stand-ups do jokes about black people all the time and to a predominantly black audience. They didn't care.

That's a new one on me.

 

[Outsiderzedge]

That's a new one on me.

You'd be surprised what you see on BET.

 

[Sandman138]

A white man goes out in public wearing a white pride shirt, he's labeled a racist.

A hispanic person goes out in public wearing a Brown Pride shirt, he's proud of his race.

A black man beats down a white man, it's a crime.

A white man beats down a black man, it's a hate crime.

A white man gets turned down for a job, he wasn't qualified..

A black person gets turned down for a job, discrimination.

You are symplifying a very complex problem. As far as white pride, it is an unfortunate circumstance that the phrase has been appropriated by White Supremecist groups. If you want to reappropriate it, why not push for a white pride group that celebrates diversity while looking to understand and appreciate the Anglo Saxen culture?

As far as hate crimes, here in Mass, white guys kill black guys and black guys kill white guys and white guys kill white guys and black guys kill black guys... none of which classify as hate crimes. However, two white men chaining a black man to the back of their truck and then dragging him for a mile untill he was dead certianly sounds like a hate crime to me. People killing people is a larger issue that needs to be addressed here anyway.

On the issue of affirmitive action. I don't like it, but I do recognize that it has a legitimate reason for existing. There is institutionalized racism in our culture, it is rather hard to deny. As a white male, I get automatic affirmitive action over people of color and it is a benifit that I bet most white men such as myself would not want being thrown away. Affirmitive action is somewhat of a nessecary evil in a day when white people are still looked upon more favorably than people of color when it comes to getting into college, getting a well paying job, and simply being able to have a good life.

 

[kP_bAnNerD]

I just learned something today

The Koreans in my school are the biggest racists i have ever seen in my life

Sure you maybe thinking to yourself, "Brodie! How could you say that, your a racist!"

Im not saying every Korean is racist, i'm just saying this particular group is.
I over heard them at lunch talking about how they hate most black's, whites and hisspanic people. Then later in one of my classes I asked this one girl from that particular group what page we we're on. She just gave me a dirty look and didn't say anything.

Wierd

What school is this?

Brodieman, are you white?

What is the reason they would discriminate you?

Because they were discriminated by other people,
they discriminate other people.

Did you do anything that they would feel was discriminatory towards them?

 

[GunBlade]

You'd be surprised what you see on BET.

Did you see Gary Owens? It was hilarious.

 

[Spider-Fett]

Belive it or not,but rascism still exists,which is why people tend to view things that way.

As long as there are stereotypes, and a majority of people continue to live according to them. There will be racism.

This happens in EVERYTHING in life, we base the knowledge on a new thing off of how things in the past with a like thing went.

If I went on a rollercoaster and puked my guts out. The next rollercoaster I saw I would be weary to ride because I puked my guts out on the last one.

If I had a milkshake at McDonalds, and it tasted like crap. I wouldn't get milkshakes anymore. (Even if they bring all the boys to the yard)

If the last time I manhandled a snake it bit me, I would expect the next snake to bite me as well.

If the last time I saw a black guy in a hoodie and sweats, he was robbing someone I would think twice about letting a black guy with a hoodie and sweats walk up behind me.

There are exceptions to EVERY rule, but that will never matter.

There could be a piece of dog crap that tastes like Watermelon Bubble Yum, doesn't mean I'm going to eat it.

 

[Spider-Fett]

true, but NY a whole bunch more.....

Sweet, I made the awesome list!

How?

 

[Quietstorm]

Did you see Gary Owens? It was hilarious.

Gary Ownes is THA MAN!! up:

BTW someone mentioned "African American" is a word used by blacks with inferiority problems. No. African American refers to blacks who can trace their ancestry back to Africa.

 

[Quietstorm]

Debate over term African-American grows complex

November 03, 2004

A debate is ongoing over whether the term African-American is an appropriate identifier of those in the black community.

It is a question worth pondering because of the precise or imprecise nature of the term in 2004.

The debate made national headlines this year when Republican candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in Illinois Alan Keyes challenged whether his opponent, Barack Obama, can claim an African-American identity. Obama's father is from Kenya.

Keyes believes that only Americans descended from slaves should use the term African-American.

"Barack Obama and I have the same race - that is, physical characteristics," Keyes said. "We are not from the same heritage."

But as immigration has increased over the last few decades, more and more Americans are indeed of recent African descent.

According to demographers at the State University of New York in Albany, the number of blacks with recent roots in sub-Saharan Africa nearly tripled in the 1990s. Are they African-Americans in the same way the descendents of slaves are?

Many blacks feel the term should be reserved for those who have suffered through slavery, segregation and the terrible legacies of those times in American history.

And what of Caucasian immigrants from Africa? Are they African-Americans? That group would include actress Charlize Theron, born in South Africa, and Teresa Heinz Kerry, born in Mozambique.

Then there are black people who immigrate from Jamaica or Haiti, for example, who end up with the African-American moniker despite the obvious inaccuracy of that term.

The term has implications for institutions that encourage diversity. At Harvard, some officials worry that more than half of the university's black students did not descend from slaves but are rather black students who immigrated or whose parents immigrated from Africa or the Caribbean.

When will the time come when all who hold U.S. citizenship are simply referred to as Americans? In so doing would we risk losing historical perspective?

These are delicate questions in the ongoing debate over cultural identity.

The answers are unclear, but it is part of the fabric of this melting pot country of ours.

 

[terry78]

Debate over term African-American grows complex

November 03, 2004

A debate is ongoing over whether the term African-American is an appropriate identifier of those in the black community.

It is a question worth pondering because of the precise or imprecise nature of the term in 2004.

The debate made national headlines this year when Republican candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in Illinois Alan Keyes challenged whether his opponent, Barack Obama, can claim an African-American identity. Obama's father is from Kenya.

Keyes believes that only Americans descended from slaves should use the term African-American.

"Barack Obama and I have the same race - that is, physical characteristics," Keyes said. "We are not from the same heritage."

But as immigration has increased over the last few decades, more and more Americans are indeed of recent African descent.

According to demographers at the State University of New York in Albany, the number of blacks with recent roots in sub-Saharan Africa nearly tripled in the 1990s. Are they African-Americans in the same way the descendents of slaves are?

Many blacks feel the term should be reserved for those who have suffered through slavery, segregation and the terrible legacies of those times in American history.

And what of Caucasian immigrants from Africa? Are they African-Americans? That group would include actress Charlize Theron, born in South Africa, and Teresa Heinz Kerry, born in Mozambique.

Then there are black people who immigrate from Jamaica or Haiti, for example, who end up with the African-American moniker despite the obvious inaccuracy of that term.

The term has implications for institutions that encourage diversity. At Harvard, some officials worry that more than half of the university's black students did not descend from slaves but are rather black students who immigrated or whose parents immigrated from Africa or the Caribbean.

When will the time come when all who hold U.S. citizenship are simply referred to as Americans? In so doing would we risk losing historical perspective?

These are delicate questions in the ongoing debate over cultural identity.

The answers are unclear, but it is part of the fabric of this melting pot country of ours.

I think the last thing anyone wants to do is quote Alan Keyes, seriously.

 

[Quietstorm]

I think the last thing anyone wants to do is quote Alan Keyes, seriously.

I do not agree with Alan Keyes, he's an idiot.

 

[Nero_Ordin]

i rascist against racist because no body should hate anyone because when you think about it we are all one race the human race.

 

[Constantine J.]

As an entirety, no, white people have not been prosecuted. However, there are instances of persecution of whites in this country in the last 400 years. Ask the Irish about it.

jag

Oh, but i meant as a whole, and especifically from other races.

 

[jaguarr]

Oh, but i meant as a whole, and especifically from other races.

Oh. I didn't realize you were speaking in generalities. At any rate, ever been a white guy in the middle of Watts/Compton/West Oakland at midnight?
jag

 

[Constantine J.]

Oh. I didn't realize you were speaking in generalities. At any rate, ever been a white guy in the middle of Watts/Compton/West Oakland at midnight?
jag

Oh, I agree with you, but that's oversimplifying isn't it.
I mean........

the Indians didn't slaughter the white people.

the black people didn't enslave the white people

so forth and so on.................
what i mean is that so far the opressive race has been the white race for whatever reason.......

I'm all white by the way.....but still

 

[PLAS]

Gary Ownes is THA MAN!! up:

BTW someone mentioned "African American" is a word used by blacks with inferiority problems. No. African American refers to blacks who can trace their ancestry back to Africa.

I said that, and I stand by what I said, an african american is indeed a person that can trace his/her heritage back to africa, but that does not necesarily means they have to be black

people from South Africa are white, yet, if a white family from south africa came to live in america back in the 30's, any descendant from that family (being white or black or asian) could consider him/herself as an african american

black people referring to themselves as african american even if their names are John Mitchell or Helen Smith are just having a problem accepting he fact that they are black

hey, I'm Mexican, my name is Alejandro Cruz, yet, if I were to live in the US, nobody would notice I'm mexican based on my appearance, accent or demeanor... does that mean that I'm not completely mexican? my dad is born in mexico, so is my mother, I might have ancestors of European origin, but since the linage has been going for so long, it no longer matters

 

[LexLuthor]

You are symplifying a very complex problem. As far as white pride, it is an unfortunate circumstance that the phrase has been appropriated by White Supremecist groups. If you want to reappropriate it, why not push for a white pride group that celebrates diversity while looking to understand and appreciate the Anglo Saxen culture?

As far as hate crimes, here in Mass, white guys kill black guys and black guys kill white guys and white guys kill white guys and black guys kill black guys... none of which classify as hate crimes. However, two white men chaining a black man to the back of their truck and then dragging him for a mile untill he was dead certianly sounds like a hate crime to me. People killing people is a larger issue that needs to be addressed here anyway.

On the issue of affirmitive action. I don't like it, but I do recognize that it has a legitimate reason for existing. There is institutionalized racism in our culture, it is rather hard to deny. As a white male, I get automatic affirmitive action over people of color and it is a benifit that I bet most white men such as myself would not want being thrown away. Affirmitive action is somewhat of a nessecary evil in a day when white people are still looked upon more favorably than people of color when it comes to getting into college, getting a well paying job, and simply being able to have a good life.

"BY GEORGE I THINK HE'S GOT IT!" You have a good understanding of how life actually is at the moment, and I applaud you for that. I just wish there were others like you who could see it this way.

 

[LexLuthor]

black people referring to themselves as african american even if their names are John Mitchell or Helen Smith are just having a problem accepting he fact that they are black

Mr. Cruz that's a silly assumption. Black people referring to themselves as African-American doesn't mean they have a problem accepting the fact that they are black. That's far from the truth. That's just one of the many titles that we and others use to describe us: black, African-American, Afro-American, negro, etc. Over the years, it just came to be accepted (African-American) as the appropriate/PC title since we are descendents from Africa. But hell, if you want to look at it in a broader sense, all of us in America can call ourselves African-Americans because life started in Africa.

I, for one, say that I am black. But, as I was growing up, when filling out application forms, the only title available for black people was "African-American" (which was initially Afro-American). So, some black people refer to themselves as African-Americans because that is what has become accepted, what they have been taught to call themselves, and how they identify with their heritage. So please, let's erase that little bit of ignorance. I have no issue with referring to myself as black...it's a powerful thing, and I embrace it fully as many other people who refer to themselves as African-Americans.

 

[strike-hard]

that's why I'm only making jokes about paraplegic, jewish, half asian, half latino/black, ******s with drinking problems

Racist!

 

[Hollow Wood Director]

Why do we have labels for people that clearly don't match the thing they're describing?

Black people aren't black, they're brownish( varying degrees of browns / light, and dark )

White people aren't white, they're pinky, tan, and creamy.

Asian people aren't yellow, they're light brown or creamy.

The person who labelled the people of the world must have been colour blind because no way do white people blend in with white paint.